In addition, the History recently published ‘Honour, Interest and Power: an Illustrated History of the House of Lords, 1660-1715’ (edited by Paul Seaward & Ruth Paley, 2010). This highly illustrated book presents the first results from the research undertaken by the History of Parliament Trust on the peers and bishops between the Restoration and the accession of George I. It shows them as politicians at Westminster; as members of an elite intensely conscious of their honour and status; as a class apart, always devising new schemes - successful and unsuccessful - to increase their wealth and 'interest'; and as local grandees, to whom local society looked for leadership and protection.